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Oh, they're actually the bad guys, just folks haven't thought far enough ahead to realise it yet.

Authors of original paper: Samuel G. B. Johnson, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Yoshua Bengio, Nick Chater, Tobias Gerstenberg, Kate Larson, Sydney Levine, Melanie Mitchell, Iyad Rahwan, Ber…

I'll copy my LinkedIn comment: "Well done to the UK for not signing the fully compromised Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for the People and the Plan…

Most of the comments here only make sense under a model where AI isn't going to become extremely powerful AI in the near term. If you think upcoming models aren't going to be very …

Released 9th October, 2023

Will Oprah screw up the AI story? Quite possibly, but likely not as bad as this article. Complete clickbait title, assumes that the author's hobby horses are the most important thi…

I'm not going to try to recap all of that, but, as an example, if you have a sufficiently strong understanding of arithmetic, learning basic modular arithmetic should be effortless…

Just thought I'd add a comment as someone who came top of the state in my grade in multiple olympiad competitions: I always felt that a large part of my advantage came from having …

I expect this to end up having been one of the worst timed blog posts in history. Open source AI has mostly been good for the world up until now, but we're getting to the point whe…

I'm just going to say it. The author is an idiot who is using insults as a crutch to make his case.

Did you read the report? It's answer for basically anything contentious was, "views differ"

Not possible because they've got LeCun.

While this article makes some valid points, it basically just ignores the reasons why the law is being passed, that is the potential for open-models to enable bio-attacks, cyberatt…

"This paper follows a recent trend of marketing excellent theoretical work as LLMs being capable of secretly plotting behind your back, when the realistic implication is backdoor r…

OpenAI just released a response to Musk's lawsuit. One of the emails provided as evidence of their claims is Slate Star Codex's "Should AI be open?" The emails show Musk forwarding…

Yeah, at first I read that as it using 26.8% of the original steps, but reducing the number of steps by 26.8% is not that impressive. I wonder whether it actually reduces total sea…

EA here: "Discussing the risks and opportunities in front of us intelligently, e/accs believe, is a sign of a flourishing civil society" Except e/acc has made a massive contributio…

As someone who majored in philosophy, it's kind of embarrassing that I would struggle to name names as to who might be likely to be seen as the most brilliant by future generations…

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Have you seen the Center for AI Safety letter? A lot of experts are worried AI safety could be an x-risk: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

Perhaps. Anthropic was started by a bunch of people who left OpenAI b/c it wasn't focused enough on safety.

Why would Roko's basilisk play a big part in your reasoning? In my experience, it's basically never been a part of serious discussions in EA/LW/AI Safety. Mostly, comes up when peo…